” Update 12:51 PST: Based on a news conference provide by Kern County and Taft police, here is the sequence of events this morning:

The shooter is a 16 y.o. male who did not attend the start of class this morning.

The shooter was seen walking on campus carrying a shotgun. The person who saw him called 911 which initiated a police response even before the shooting took place.

The shooter entered a class he was a student in and shot one 16 y.o. boy.

The teacher in the class is being called a hero for talking to the shooter while students fled the classroom through a back door.

The shooter reportedly attempted to shoot a 2nd student who he named but the teacher apparently prevented it.

As the teacher was talking to the shooter an unarmed campus supervisor approached and began talking to him as well.

The shooter eventually put the gun down at which point police had reached the scene and arrested him.

The teacher was injured in the head by buckshot but declined treatment at the scene.

Taft Union High usually has an armed School Resource Office on campus but he was not there today because he was snowed in at home.

Police have no information on where the shooter got the gun used in the incident.

Finally, the media on scene claims that multiple parents have told them that a student at Taft Union was suspended last year for making a “hit list.” Some are claiming that individual is the shooter in today’s incident but police have not offered any confirmation of this.

” David Heber, the father of teacher Ryan Heber, said that his son is doing okay.
David said in an interview with 23ABC News, “(Ryan’s) a fantastic and good young man, and I appreciate him being true to himself.”

Heber was shot in the head by a stray fragment, multiple sources told 23ABC News.

Heber refused medical treatment.

Heber and a campus security officer distracted the shooter to let the other students leave the room. “